About the Book
In Israel and the Cyber Threat, Charles D. ("Chuck") Freilich, Matthew S. Cohen, and Gabi Siboni provide a detailed and comprehensive study of Israel's cyber strategy, tracing it from its origins to the present. They analyze Israel's highly advanced civil and military cyber capabilities and organizational structures to offer insights into what other countries can learn from Israel's experience. To achieve this, they explore how and why Israel has been able to build a remarkable cyber ecosystem and turn itself, despite its small size, into a global cyber power. The book further examines the major cyber threats facing Israel, including the most in-depth look at Iranian cyber policies and attacks; Israel's defensive and offensive capabilities and the primary attacks it has conducted; capacity building; international cooperation; and the impact of Israel's strategic culture on its cyber prowess. By placing Israel's actions in the realm of international relations theory, the book sheds light on many of the major questions in the field regarding cyber policies. The most authoritative work to date on Israeli cyber strategy, this book provides a comprehensive look at the major actions Israel has taken in cyberspace. It also places them in the broader context of global cyber developments to help listeners understand state behavior in cyberspace.
About the Author :
Charles D. Freilich, a former deputy national security adviser in Israel and longtime senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center, has taught political science at Harvard, Columbia, NYU, and Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Zion's Dilemmas: How Israel Makes National Security Policy and Israeli National Security: A New Strategy for an Era of Change and coauthor, with Matthew S. Cohen and Gabi Siboni, of Israel and the Cyber Threat: How the Startup Nation Became a Global Cyber Power. He has published numerous academic articles and over 150 op-eds. He also appears frequently on US, Israeli, and international TV and radio stations. Matthew S. Cohen is an assistant professor of practice in the Political Science and Public Policy Department at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts. He earned his PhD in political science at Northeastern University, and holds an ALM with a concentration in government from Harvard University, and a bachelor's degree from Brandeis University with a dual major in politics and sociology. Matthew served as a consultant for the Cyber Security Project at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He has previously published on cyber-security policy, Russian foreign policy, international relations theory, delegitimization and lawfare, Israeli security policy, Turkish-Israeli relations, and Turkish politics. Before entering academia, Matthew worked at the local, state, and federal levels of American government, including over seven years at the Massachusetts State House as a research and budget director. He is additionally a local elected official. Gabi Siboni is a national security specialist and the former director of the Military and Strategic Affairs Program as well as of the Cyber Security Program at Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). He is now a senior research fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS). Prof. Siboni is the founder and was the editor of the Military and Strategic Affairs Journal until 2016. In January 2017, he founded and was the editor of Cyber, Intelligence, and Security Journal. Prof. Siboni is the author or coauthor of several books, including Israel and the Cyber Threat: How the Startup Nation Became a Global Cyber Power, Cybersecurity and Legal-Regulatory Aspects, Guidelines for Israel National Security Strategy, Guidelines for a National Protection Strategy, Regulation in Cyberspace, and National Cyber Strategy. He holds a BS and MS in engineering from Tel Aviv University and a doctorate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) from Ben-Gurion University. Dina Pearlman was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, and went on to attend Carnegie Mellon University. Based in New York City, this actress, stand-up comic, and Audie Award-nominated narrator of over 300 audiobooks is best known for her appearances in Sex and the City (as Ruby Rosen, jeweler extraordinaire) and several Spike Lee films, notably Bamboozled in the role of slick network TV consultant Myrna Goldfarb. In HBO's Bad Education, Dina portrayed Wendy, a member of the doomed Roslyn Board of Ed frantically attempting to cover up missing funds, and Gina in Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade, a sun-block-obsessed mom pulling partygoers aside to apply and re-apply. Dina is recurring on The Good Fight Season 5 as the lawsuit-averse rule-follower Katherine from Human Resources. Dina Pearlman was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, and went on to attend Carnegie Mellon University. Based in New York City, this actress, stand-up comic, and Audie Award-nominated narrator of over 300 audiobooks is best known for her appearances in Sex and the City (as Ruby Rosen, jeweler extraordinaire) and several Spike Lee films, notably Bamboozled in the role of slick network TV consultant Myrna Goldfarb. In HBO's Bad Education, Dina portrayed Wendy, a member of the doomed Roslyn Board of Ed frantically attempting to cover up missing funds, and Gina in Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade, a sun-block-obsessed mom pulling partygoers aside to apply and re-apply. Dina is recurring on The Good Fight Season 5 as the lawsuit-averse rule-follower Katherine from Human Resources.
